Re: [SLE] Monitor Driver for Sampo Alphascan 712 ...

Philip, Thanks for the info. I looked again, and it seems that the driver sites that google returns has drivers for every Sampo monitor but the one I am looking for. I did find the specs. I plugged the Vertical and Horizontal Ranges in SaX2, but nothing changed. I am stuck at 800x600. Here are the specs I have on the monitor. How do I make SaX2 know this information ? Sampo Alphascan 712 (KM-712) Size: 17" (16" Diagonal Viewable Area) Dot Pitch: 0.27mm Type: Flat Square Tube Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 66Hz H-Freq.: 30 KHz ~ 72 KHz V-Freq.: 50 Hz ~ 160 Hz Dot Rate: 110 MHz On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 17:03, Philipp Thomas wrote:

Thinker [01 Aug 2003 19:48:49 -0700]:

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I've looked and looked and I cannot find any Linux Drivers for the Sampo Alphascan 712, other than MS 98 drivers.

Monitors don't need drivers. What the OS needs is a description of the monitors capabilities, i.e. horizontal and vertical frequency ranges. These Windows drivers are nothing other then text files in a special format.

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them both the same resolution or a location online that has Linux drivers for monitors.

Sax2 can read the .inf files for windows. The other alternative is to directly tell sax2 what resolution the monitor provides.

Philipp